Garter



J. SMITH GARTER Filed Aug. 31, 1929 INVENTOR Oscar SmHh 11 ATToRNgfls jPatente d Octa 1930 OSCAR J.-'sMITH, or essays. y,

GARTER This-invention relates to garters and is particularly directed to"garters for mens Wear.

calf of the wearers leg providing maximum comfort to the wearer and fullsuspenslon of the sock for all positions of the leg in walk I lng,standlng and slttlng.

I am well aware of the fact that itis not;

new and novelto mount the hose clasp on "an adjustable suspensionpieceso that it maybe Mmoved relative. to the leg band but my 1nventionresidesin the particular construction zowhich is herein disclosed'inaccomplishing this desirableresult While producing apmaximum ofreliability and a minimum of expens'e of manufacture and at the sametlme,

.maintaining all the desirable features found e in the garters now knownto the art. 1

Itis still a further object of this inventio to provide an'adjustablesuspension means for the clasp which will'have no loops (except thesmall one made around the retaining 1 3 bar of the hose clasp itself),thus decreasin the amount of material required, 1

Fig. 1 isa frontelevatlon of a garter embodying my invention; and rFig.2 is a vertical sectional elevation through the center of the pad.

A preferred form of my invention illus trated in the drawings comprisesthe adjustjable leg band 10 usually constructed of an elastic fabric;The fixed end 11 of the .band* 10 is sewed orotherwise securedtotheupper part of the pad 12 at one side thereof. Pad

12maybe made of any of the usual materials now used for this-purpose andits shape and i configuration maybe of the usual shapeand configuration,but in my lnvention it 1s furnished with a channel adapted toqreceiveasuspension member 14: andformed by two layersof fabric whichmake up thepad 12, that-is, layer15 which'is adjacent to the leg of the wearer whenthe garter is in usezand an outer layer 16, which is? secured to layer I.15txcept at the center of the padwhere they A particularimprovementefi'ected by my 5 invention is the means for adjustably su'spendiligtlie hose clasptojthe leg band theije- H by enabling properadjustment'ofthe loca tion of seourement of the clasp to the hose.

relative to the leg band and affording the lo 0 cation ofthe leg bandabout andabove the:

commodate the width of suspension member- 14 and allow this suspensionmember. to slide freely 'therebetween clearly illustrated "in i oured =afclamping'buckle 17 through which suspension member 14 is adapted toslide and e by means of whichsuspension member 14 may 0 be locked to pad12*inany desired position.

The suspension member 14 is made of a slngle strip of fabric which maybeof elastic .material and its width is such relative to the rhannelformedbylayers 15 and 16 and the buckle 17, that when buckle-17 is inits open position, the suspension member 14.- will slide ireely up anddownas viewed in .Fi 1

through the channel and the buckle The lower end of. suspension member14' is equipped withthe usual hose clasp made up of a rubberbutton 19and the closedU-shaped eye member QOco-operating therewith and equippedwith the usual fabricbacking piece 21 to protect the wearer from contactwith the metal portion ofthe clasp. r e

A detachable clasp for the leg band 10 is illustrated in Fig. l andcomprisesya link 13 of the band 10 to the pad. 7 At lt is illus 8 tratedthe conventional buckle which is adapted to slide along the band 10andthus enable an adjustm ent of thejlength thereof. to be readily made.

lVhile I have herein shown and described a 9 5 preferredembodiment or myinvention, and

its application to garters, I Wish it to be un "derstood that itis notlimited to all the precisedetails of construction herein set forth byway of illustratiom nor to the particular "application to garters, asmodification and variation maybe made in the construction of l thegarters and may be applied toother purposeswithout-departingfrom thespirit of the UNITED STA res RATE invention or exceeding the scope ofthe appended claim.

I claim.

In a garter of the class described, a substantially triangular pad madeof a plurality of layers of fabric, an adjustable elastic leg band,adapted to encircle the calf of the Wearer to support the load imposedby the hose Which is attached to the garter, and perinanently secured atits one end to an upper corner of said pad and detachably secured at itsother end to the other upper corner of said,

pad, a channel formed in said pad between the layers thereof, hose claspmeans, an elastic strap attached to said hose clasp means and adapted toslide up and down through said channel to adjust the distance betweensaid hose clasp means and the pad and a clasp on said pad adapted tolock said strap and pad together.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification this 30th day ofAugust, 1929. OSCAR J. SMITH.

